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Cultural pluralism is one among the beautiful attributes that leads to promotion of coordinated and harmonious relationship among the people. And it is this relation that contributes to love , peace and harmony. Cultural pluralism helps to preserve the unique traditions, identities and languages of the many cultures within a society ,making it culturally pluralistic that results into greater tolerance , less prejudice and discrimination – the characteristic of successful society and nation. Previously, we would take pride of being rich in culture, however; with growing materialism our outlook has changed. Anti-cultural people can be found harbouring viceseral prejudice against other communities. But, when a teacher – the builder of nation engages into this venomous bias, it obviously startles .
Few days back I was on my internship . I chose a place far away from my home. Actually I desired to meet new people and was quite eager to know new things about their livelihood besides getting a new atmosphere to enjoy my internship . I was very excited to have an advanced experience. I packed my bag and left home early in the morning of 13th September. On the day Ist, I was there in dardsun Kupwara – this place was completely unknown to me. The place was not so beautiful as compared to other places I had visited before. People around me were completely unfamiliar to me. Since I belonged to other community that was the reason I was not feeling comfortable with them. Different questions were posed to me, which I managed to answer very frankly. Next day i joined school, things were normal. I cherished every moment with friends , students and all others .But things abruptly changed for me as I found myself befuddled with new experiences. After attending the class on Friday 14 september I was sitting in the office with other staff members, a discussion was going on over teaching profession and challenges faced by teacher . While i was putting my views forward , a teacher passed comments , sounding very unpleasant ,as if he was insulting me. Things went out of control , when I heard some rude remarks pertaining to my dressing, even though I was dressed modestly and properly . For a ample time I couldn’t understand why I am facing such obnoxious moment ? . I evaded the moment by holding my nerves, but upcoming days brought more agony and afflictions with them . I became a central point of discussion thereafter , my community ,my language , my dress code became topic of debate in the school giving me most hurtful experiences of my life . I began to contemplate about myself , about my community , about my culture and even about my fate . I was feeling as if I had made a mistake by comming to this world through my community . I got feelings that I have perhaps committed an offence and for that I am paying .
As I was not staying with my family rather at friends home , each day and night that I spent there turned out source of inconvenience for me. I was literally depressed.
I was feeling foggy about what to do and what not to do? . I was following the dress code suitable to school environment , there was nothing wrong as far as my conduct was concerned ,but i was the only trainee , subjected to sort of mental torture. Still i tried my level best to take corrective measure in ensuring my modesty which I priortize more in my life and maintain my behaviour. However, all in vain.
Lastly, what I realised is that there was existing a prejudice against me, my ethnicity and my culture, which totally discouraged me. At the first I could not believe is this our Kashmir , where we make loud claims of Kashmiriyat . But later my concious and conscience spoke to me; yes it’s Kashmir where people are characterized by Kashmiriyat , no doubt. Nevertheless, people with filthy mindset are still existing here.
There would be many other girls , silently bearing tormenting approach and struggling to maintain their reputation among others, but I prefered to put this harsh treatment that it faced into my words to make it clear that materialistic progress is not worthwhile unless we won’t develop our ideas and perspectives . Importantly, we can’t flourish unless we would water the roots of social fabric by embracing all the people irrespective of caste, creed , religion and ethinicity . As our progress lies in plurality.